Bug#854880: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code
Package: firmware-atheros
Severity: serious
The binary files
Files: ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.0.fw, ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw
were created from files that include GPL components according to
the copyright file, specially, the eCos files:
eCos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
.
As a special exception, if other files instantiate templates or use macros
or inline functions from this file, or you compile this file and link it
with other works to produce a work based on this file, this file does not
by itself cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public
License. However the source code for this file must still be made available
in accordance with section (3) of the GNU General Public License.
.
This exception does not invalidate any other reasons why a work based on
this file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
These need to be either added to the package or the firmware needs
to be removed from the archive.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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